{"id":3898,"date":"2009-05-31T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnshore\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2009-05-31T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T21:32:26","slug":"the-collection-my-funniest-stuff-now-available-on-scribd-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnshore\/2009\/05\/the-collection-my-funniest-stuff-now-available-on-scribd-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Entertain You; Let Me Make You Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>[scribd id=15978488 key=key-bb0pu42q1iod1mg5xri]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve bundled into an e-book 35 of my funniest blog essays, and made the 145-page collection available on Scribd.com for $6.99. You can see the book\u2019s table of contents\u2014and the first three or four of its pieces\u2013by scrolling in the display above. Beside buying it, you can help the book by marking it a \u201cFavorite\u201d or \u201cLike\u201d on Scribd, since that greatly improves its ranking and thus its visibility on that site. And of course passing the link for the book along to others would be terrific. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Scribd.com (on which I\u2019ve also made available <em>I\u2019m OK\u2013You\u2019re Not<\/em>), go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnshore\/my-books\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">My Books.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[scribd id=15978488 key=key-bb0pu42q1iod1mg5xri] \u00a0 I\u2019ve bundled into an e-book 35 of my funniest blog essays, and made the 145-page collection available on Scribd.com for $6.99. You can see the book\u2019s table of contents\u2014and the first three or four of its pieces\u2013by scrolling in the display above. 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